Principal Platform Power and Performance Engineer

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts over 200 online businesses including Bing MSN Office 365 Xbox Live Teams OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure security and compliance operations globalization and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth high efficiency and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partnersworldwideand we are looking for passionateengineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsofts cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal the CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing improving the planning process quality delivery scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for experienced engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Principal Platform Power and Performance (PnP) Engineer to join the team.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Lead platform power and performance strategy for next-generation Microsoft AI compute platforms driving industry-leading performance-per-watt scalability efficiency and total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for a team of highly skilled engineers while leading cross-functional initiatives that solve complex platform power performance and efficiency challenges.
• Partner with business architecture silicon firmware hardware validation operating systems manufacturing and customer engineering teams to define requirements and deliver optimized platform solutions.
• Drive silicon and platform power-performance architecture including workload characterization power management features frequency/voltage optimization memory subsystem efficiency accelerator utilization and system-level performance tuning.
• Analyze and optimize interactions between silicon power delivery thermal solutions firmware operating systems and datacenter infrastructure to maximize performance efficiency reliability and operational scalability.
• Lead power-performance characterization profiling and benchmarking across Azure datacenter deployments using customer workloads AI training and inference applications and synthetic benchmarks to guide data-driven design decisions.
• Influence future silicon and platform roadmaps through deep analysis of workload behavior performance bottlenecks power efficiency opportunities and emerging AI infrastructure requirements.
• Communicate technical strategies tradeoffs and recommendations to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders driving alignment across organizations and accelerating delivery of next-generation AI infrastructure.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 7 years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
• 8 years of relevant experience in compute and/or AI systems/platforms design and development.
• 8 years of experience with SoC CPU GPU or AI accelerator architectures including power management performance analysis memory subsystems interconnects power delivery and thermal solutions.
• 8 years of experience collaborating across hardware firmware operating systems silicon architecture and validation engineering teams to deliver platform solutions.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hyperscale cloud infrastructure large-scale AI compute platforms and datacenter operations.

• Experience with custom silicon AI accelerators and silicon bring-up from pre-silicon validation through production deployment.

• Knowledge of server architecture power delivery systems and liquid cooling technologies.

• Experience with workload characterization profiling benchmarking and performance analysis for AI/ML workloads in large-scale datacenter environments.

• Experience optimizing performance efficiency and performance-per-watt across hardware and software systems.

• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering disciplines.

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Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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